Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Fatima Asmal DURBAN, Oct 26, 2010 (IPS) – Gender training for peacekeeping operations "is not something you do for two weeks before you go for deployment," says Florence Butegwa, UNIFEM representative to the African Union (AU) and U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). The growing international [...]
PERU: Government Lashes Out at Human Rights Groups
May 2, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Ángel Páez LIMA, May 2 (IPS) – The Peruvian government, with the backing of the parliamentary bloc that supports former President Alberto Fujimori, has unleashed a campaign against non-governmental organisations that defend human rights, according to [...]
INDIA/IRAN: Course Correction
May 2, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Praful Bidwai NEW DELHI, May 2 (IPS) – Relations between India and Iran, which deteriorated over the past three years from traditional friendship and warmth into mutual suspicion and tension, have started looking up again. [...]
BOSNIA: Workers Make a Start for Rights
May 1, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Thursday, May 01, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Zack Baddorf SARAJEVO, May 1 (IPS) – ”Parliamentarians, shame on you!” read a sign in Bosnian carried by four union workers in downtown Sarajevo. The workers hoisted the banner above their heads and joined a procession [...]
RIGHTS: Native People Warn U.N. of Biofuels Disaster
April 30, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Wednesday, April 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30 (IPS) – Growing demand for biofuels by the world’s rich nations is propelling attacks on indigenous people and destroying their lands and forests, according to native leaders attending a three-week international [...]
LABOUR-CAMBODIA: US Recession May Hit Anti-Sweatshop Campaign
April 30, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Wednesday, April 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Andrew Nette PHNOM PENH, Apr 30 (IPS) – Recession in the United States is endangering a unique experiment that has seen Cambodia become a leading player in the campaign to eradicate sweatshops in the textile industry. [...]
DEATH PENALTY-CUBA: Dissidents, Preachers Welcome Decision
April 29, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Tuesday, April 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Patricia Grogg HAVANA, Apr 29 (IPS) – Cuban President Raúl Castro’s announcement that virtually all death sentences would be commuted to terms of 30 years to life was welcomed Tuesday by social sectors calling for the [...]
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Where Have the Piglets Gone?
April 29, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Tuesday, April 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Kathryn Strachan JOHANNESBURG, Apr 29 (IPS) – Each psychiatric patient leaving Tower Hospital in the Eastern Cape Province under a new project to integrate patients into the community is sent home with two piglets. While at [...]
ARGENTINA: Smoke Was a Long Time Coming
April 29, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Tuesday, April 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Apr 29 (IPS) – ”The work has been relentless. We finish putting out one big fire and another one breaks out in the same area.” This remark by a firefighter in Argentina, [...]
KENYA: Relocation of Traders in Nairobi Still Beset With Problems
April 29, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Tuesday, April 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Rosalia Omungo NAIROBI, Apr 29 (IPS) – Jackson Gitonga’s business has suffered during the recent post-election violence. He could not leave his house to sell his wares — second-hand shoes which, he says, are of high [...]
